{"id":816,"date":"2011-01-12T20:55:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T20:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=816"},"modified":"2020-06-26T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T05:59:17","slug":"the-pruitt-igoe-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"The Pruitt-Igoe Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gm-map\" style=\"position: relative;height: 200px; width: 200px;\"><iframe name=\"gm-map-1\" allowfullscreen src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/?geo_mashup_content=render-map&amp;map_data_key=1e4f7773e481d022c057d05ef7e93372&amp;zoom=15&amp;name=gm-map-1&amp;map_content=contextual&amp;error_comment=&lt;!-- Geo Mashup found no objects to map in this context--&gt;\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pruitt-Igoe_1968March03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-832\" title=\"Pruitt-Igoe_1968March03\" src=\"http:\/\/americanurbex.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Pruitt-Igoe_1968March03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/18356414?color=ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pruitt-igoe.com\/the-pruitt-igoe-myth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History<\/a> examines the story of the post World War II Pruitt-Igoe urban renewal project in St. Louis through the eyes of those who lived there.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the film&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Completed in 1954, the 33 11-story buildings of Pruitt-Igoe were billed as the solution to the overcrowding and deterioration that plagued inner city St. Louis. Twenty years later, the buildings were leveled, declared unfit for habitation.<\/p>\n<p>What happened in Pruitt-Igoe has fueled a mythology repeated in discussions of many urban high-rise projects. Violence, crime, drugs and then establishment of rehab centres\u2014like the very famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legacyhealing.com\/miami\/amp\/\">legacy healing center<\/a>. That&#8217;s how the the story goes, plagued the housing project from nearly the beginning as it became a \u201cdumping ground\u201d for the poorest city residents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tells of a declining city; a suburbanizing nation; a changing urban economy; a hope for the future; and residents who fought back in their own ways, refusing to be passive victims of these larger forces aligned against them.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary has two goals. One is to inform and enhance the ongoing debate over public housing and government welfare programs. The film uses Pruitt-Igoe as a lens through which a larger story about affordable housing and the changing American city can be viewed. It untangles the various arguments about what went wrong in Pruitt-Igoe and dispels the over-simplifications and stereotypes that turned Pruitt-Igoe into a symbol of failure. Second, the film illustrates how conclusions are dangerously and erroneously drawn when powerful interests control debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pruitt\u2013Igoe\">Wikipedia &#8211; Entry on Pruitt-Igoe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: an Urban History examines the story of the post World War II Pruitt-Igoe urban renewal project in St. Louis through the eyes of those who lived there. 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